Just to play Devil's Advocate here, when Maul squared off against Kenobi for the last time he was also way past his prime, he just refused to admit it.
He also came from a rich family and they themselves were very well off when Francis was still a baby. I think he was a high ranking corpo dude or was atleast on the road to one.
He is. He straight up says he is weaker than he was in his prime multiple times. But his vast amount of experience helps offset a lot of the weakness that age has brought about.
Still insane as a DYING old man. It took an entire Blackbeard squadron to get rid of that 1% HP... Despite he already got magma-fisted, shot with cannons, and half his face blown out.
It's always been my headcanon that old Iroh IS prime Iroh, while he might not be as nimble and physical, his technique and power just kept getting better.
I’d like to think that it’s because he’s much more enlightened and at peace at his old age than when he was still a genocidal general in his youth. Zuko also became much more competent and powerful after he reformed compared to when he was still a rageful prince, wisdom makes you strong, especially if you’re a bender.
Not Toph though, she never stopped being a badass. She’s badass as a kid, badass throughout her adulthood, and she never lost her edge even after she became a grandma.
Yeah, young Iroh was probably more like Zhao (but more technique), all power all the time, but old Iroh refined his technique and would redirect everything young Iroh would throw at him and destroy him.
I guess around 400-500 years old? If the Sith were less patient, they'd had to face prime Yoda, and whoever was the Sith Lord at the time, would've been ragdolled by some green muppet.
I always imagined this Gerson fighting the Roaring Knight and say something like "What are you gonna do? Kill me?" laugh his ass off and somehow still win.
the character we see in the game itself isn't Gerson, but a Darkner created from a 'memory of a loved one' in Gerson's image. Though I don't doubt that the real-life Boom wouldn't have fought the Titan as well
it was so fucking liberating to my child self when we got to fight him. spent years wondering about gerson and how he was moving during the undertale war.
He’s a monster among monsters. He’s visibly holding back during the fight with Susie, makes hitting him once the win condition, and does less damage the lower your health is. He’s comparable to Undyne the Undying in difficulty despite this.
And he’s really old. Prime Gerson could probably put belt to ass on the Roaring Knight.
I like how he taunts you in the genocide route that you can’t kill him, as he’s a shopkeeper. I feel like the player would be totally cooked if we ever did try to fight him
This applies more to his undertale appearance tbh, deltarune "Gerson" as seen in game is his hammer animated to look like him and have his memories because it had his dust on it (he's actually never even referred to as gerson in chapter 4, he's the Old Man, Gerson is the lightner that was already dead). His peak power comes from being a darkner based on a guy seen so highly
Im being partially serious as before he got married and had kids he played basketball, he was really good and still is pretty good at basketball to this day despite not being serious about it, he mostly plays as a fun thing.
He also used to hit the gym and had HUGE muscles, he has photos which we still have of him and his best friend in the gym just FLEXING that stuff. He still has some of those muscles despite not having done serious lifting since my brother older brother was born.
I think so, considering the lore seems to show him in his prime until he was like 35 or whenever he got mutated (not that he ever really left his peak unless he got hurt)
Alpha Trion, Transformers. Depending on the continuity, he co-led the rebellion against the Quintessons and was pivotal to founding Cybertronian society. He then became a hermit, guarding the Matrix of Leadership until he built Optimus Prime from Orion Pax and gave him the Matrix.
Though thanks to wonky continuity and lore, his backstory kinda changes very frequently.
For people who dont know how sick Silvers Rayleigh is:
he was the right hand of the pirate king Gol D. Roger, the most influential pirate ever
his main way of traveling is swimming, which is super dangerous because the oceans are filled to the brim with giant monsters
he also swims through the Calm Belts, areas of the ocean deemed uncrossable because there are super dangerous monsters called Sea Kings living there who destroy all ships sailing through them.
he kills them no problem, even as an old man.
him simply appearing during a fight made Blackbeard, a villain and one of the most powerful people in the verse, almost shit himself and made him retreat instantly because he didnt want to fight Rayleigh.
Blackbeard running was even funnier considering Rayleigh himself admits he's not 100% sure he could win, he just had enough aura to psych him out because Blackbeard won't pick fights that aren't guaranteed wins.
Donald Duck didn't just serve, he officially served in both the Army AND Navy. He single-handedly wiped out an entire Imperial Japanese air base after parashooting into the jungle.
Note: When Bahamut casted Zettaflare in FFXVI, he was amped by the Mother Crystal. Donald can do that shit whenever, and judging by Goofy's reaction, he has.
One more reminder, this guy made one of 3 most powerful masks in history of the universe, 2 months after getting promoted to the profession of mask maker.
not quite, but I know he had a mental episode at one point and it took a bunch of orderlies to restrain him. I want to say between 6 and 10, but I don't remember exactly how many.
Described as out of shape and incredibly lazy he mostly relies on his army of zombies to get things done and while he’s no slouch he’s still taken down by Luffy well before he had Haki or Gear 5.
But apparently in his youth he was able to go up against Kaido one of the Four Emperors and live (although his crew didn’t)
Sure he lost but the fact he survived alone is enough to assume he was an incredibly powerful being in his youth.
It's a shame that Oda didn't explore Moria further in wano, I would've loved if Moria wasn't just a honorary Kozuki but maybe a real or adopted brother of Oden
Apparently he was a straight up monster when he was deployed on the Battlefield during the events of "early ones", literally being the largest on screen non-combiner character in the whole series.
Now despite him being now a greasy old Man, he still managed to rip apart 2 decepticons the nanosecond he landed in egypt. He even managed to score an honorable death, donating his parts to help Optimus and turn himself into his jet mode
Gerson, one of the shop keepers you can find in UNDERTALE. You learn more about him, he calls himself "The Hammer of Justice". Speaking to Undyne, she claims that Gerson is a veteran of the war.
In Voldy’s defence he didn’t have a body the first 2 times and when he did fight Dumbledore he was outmatched despite using the classic style of pointing his wand at Dumbledore and going Neh really loudly.
Eh I feel as if prime isnt a good example here as before he was the bad ass robot kicking butt machine he is now he was a regular robot who didnt do much
This reminds me of a couple stories from my family. My grandpa was a police officer
One time, a young boy (couldn't have been more than 6) got a hold of his dad's gun and was running around the neighborhood pointing it at people. At some point, they had a handful of people around him, with his back to the wall. My grandpa was the one to approach him.
My grandpa said that he decided before approaching that he wouldn't defend himself. If the boy shot him, he shot him. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if he hurt the boy. So he started slowly walking toward the boy from the side. The boy noticed my grandpa, and took aim. My grandpa heard a click, took a couple more steps, and disarmed the boy.
I'm pretty sure the story goes that the gun jammed, but it might have just been unloaded.
Kerubim Krepin, from Dofus.
The son of Ecaflip and a former adventurer. He tells stories about his youth that are hard to believe, but those mostly turn out to be true. Shown to be a very skilled fighter even in his age.
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Old Ben Kenobi.